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They also get burned every time they jump into the drafting and developing of players to fix their problems. They also get burned every time they jump into the trading of players to fix their problems. I think their problem may be with the people who are doing the jumping into things, not the things that they are jumping into.

A lot of people will blame Soto but those three runs are 100% on mismanagement and Hinch. Once the bases were loaded Hinch should of had Vest or Chaffin ready to come in and Soto sat down. Did Hinch really think Soto was going to find his form after 25 pitches. He didn't look good from the first batter.

The clock has run out for me. If this doesn't look different by over the weekend, Coolbaugh needs to be gone at minimum. If your GM can't pull that trigger, him as well. If the manager wants to go to the wall for his coach, so be it, him too.

The wife who only hears me groan when they lose and bitch when they suck thought that we could organize a big event at Comerica with all her buddies when we visit Detroit in July. I put the brakes on that noise about a week or so ago. "They just are not an MLB baseball team right now and I wouldn't want to waste our money on them" Mind you that I'm already paying MLB.tv and Directv to watch them.

Meadows with a HR. W. Perez playing for Erie tonight. I guess he got promoted. Wenceel finishes 2/4 BB. Nice start to a new gig.

You don't need to create a new thread every time a thought enters your mind. There are so many threads now, I can never find the thread with the topic I am looking for. I would appreciate an update on the Tigers record when Reyes starts though.

going for 3rd with 2 outs....

That's like the Port-A-Potty vacuum guy saying "I need someone to take my route next week).

Looks like people in this forum are increasingly hopping aboard the First A.J. Hinch and the Horse He Rode In On train. I'm definitely not there yet, but I won't argue against it, because it's so hard to defend the historically-bad results so far. But I will say this: if this organization fires Hinch and all his coaches while keeping Al Avila, especially as the season is still in progress, that will be the final confirmation that this organization has no plan; that they never had a serious plan in place; and frankly, don't care enough about putting a consistent winning product on the field to put a well-thought-out plan in place and see it through. At that point, it would be obvious that they appear to care about winning only to the degree that they can do the bare minimum they can get away with to have some winning drop into their lap. That's what I would take away from a midseason firing of A.J. Hinch and coach(es) TBD. Speaking only for myself, if/once that happens, I would be hard-pressed to care about the direction of the Detroit Tigers organization anymore. I would still care enough to root for them in individual games I see, as I do with the Lions, Pistons or Red Wings, because of the city on the uni. But I will have no remaining faith that they'll ever be able to figure out how to get us back to contending for the playoffs consistently, except to luck into it by throwing a little money at it, a la the Papa Doc days. The only thing that's missing from that era is the one guy at the top who knows what he's doing who can make that happen.

This is pretty bad. All the life they had last season with AJ constantly putting the other team on the defensive is gone. The hitters are cold, the team is passive, AJ is passive, the team is boring and predictable. A couple guys did get hits tonight before they were down in the count, but it's tiny scraps. They need some new voices talking to them. I'm becoming very skeptical a whole team can slump this long without there being a systemic problem.

Now here's the flip side to the Soto hate I feel responsible for starting here tonight: Soto got the L in the box score, but final strike call notwithstanding, the Tigers hitters really should be the ones wearing this loss.

Well at least they had a nice game of ping pong and nobody got mad at each other in the meeting.

I know. And my point is that he's not gonna exercise an opt out because he will not have another job lined up.

He fills a need, a vacancy that currently exists: "a player that I am interested in".

People think it's over. And....it's not.

If only there was a clean way to make massive amounts of electricity where we'd already have let's say 50+ years of experience with it.

lol!

They aren't going to fire AJ, but I guarantee if AL remains the GM for much longer/after the season, we wont have to worry about AJ getting fired; he'll be outta here on his own volition the day after the season ends.

Looks like the work of antifa to me

The Dominion News Network? Since their viewers don't read or watch outside the bubble, Dominion should take over, but pretend it's still the old people running things. Then mess with all the old people who think they are watching the truth.

Our buddy Lynn Henning calling for Al Avilia being fired in today’s paper is hopefully the beginning of the media onslaught.

that's why we need to trade them bertuzzi in a package that nets their #1 pick next year. they seem to think last year was an aberration and they are actually close to the playoffs.

A.J. Hinch is an authoritarian who is powerful enough that he can limit how much General Manager Avila and Owner Ilitch can speak to the press during the season. Hinch is also a weakling in the clubhouse who was passive in Houston while the team cheated in front of him and he doesn’t seem to be much different now. Yup, a guy like that is definitely terrible, all right.

This above quote sums up where I am at. It has been a very long time since they have shown the ability to develop players. Since the evidence is overwhelming they cannot develop a position player, and they cannot identify good trade or free agent fits, I anticipate that we are are 7 years away from anything resembling a playoff team.

That surgeon general is a hack. It's malpractice what he's doing and the fact DeSantis has people like that around makes him scarier in some ways than Trump.

We need Riley to wear that bomb outfit from the Hurt Locker every time he comes to plate just in case.

This team needs a Billy Martin postgame speech. That would take place after he flips the postgame meal table and kicks the food against all the lockers in the room. Then comes the speech. The speech would consists of a few select words that would be repeated over and over and over. I’ll bet this team couldn’t survive a Billy Martin postgame demonstration and speech. They’d all run to the IL and request a trip to Toledo. Kind of tells you where this team is right now. They feel good about things and they have the ping pong tournament going on and all the while, they totally suck at what they’re getting paid to do, top to bottom with a very few exceptions. I bet Hinch picks their balls up when they hit the floor.

In her defense, she is from Green Bay, so following a team like this is hard for her to fathom.

Me: (Tells wife stat of the day, above) Wife: “Wow.” Me: “Yeah, Tigers suck.” Wife: “Maybe you suck for following them.” Me: “ … “

The question for Tesla stock is whether the company has any conceivable route to it's earnings growing enough to justify its valuation, and in a market as mature as autos with as many established competitors over which you hold no unique sustainable advantage that's very hard to see for Tesla. I think Tesla's valuation was driven by the idea that they were an Amazon or Google or Apple kind of company, but they are not. They don't have a product or technology that has created an entirely new market that never existed before and whose size ultimate can only be guessed at. They build cars. A car with at the time new design features, but a car that was going to be used exactly as cars before it had. No-one is going to buy a Tesla beyond someone who was already going to buy a car.

cute result. Fed ups the funds rates, and all T bond yields actually go down the next day. Goes to show a) the big hike was already fully anticipated b) Longer term buyers don't expect this inflation to last. https://home.treasury.gov/resource-center/data-chart-center/interest-rates/TextView?type=daily_treasury_yield_curve&field_tdr_date_value_month=202206

Best summer city in North America. Literally anywhere else is probably a good choice.

I was thinking of taking my 4 year old daughter to her first game this summer but I'm afraid if she sees this product she will turn against baseball forever.

Okudah excites me because he’s virtually no risk and potentially enormous reward. He’s a product of the prior regime, and if he’s unable to come back from the Achilles, well, we are building up from last year anyway. If there is any chance of him still becoming a starting to elite caliber NFL CB (as many scouts - not just Quintricia - believed), I fully believe this regime can do so. And he could instantly turn the defensive backs group into a strength on this team.

Terrible call to end the game, I would be more upset but lets face it all it prevented was the Rangers pitcher from throwing another pitch and seeing Hasse hack at a slider off the plate.

Vest and Fulmer as well

Democrats in disarray

John Oliver says that Spiro Agnew is an anagram for Grow A Penis.

Yes his OPS is in the .700s now, used to be in the .400s, so he's been doing better

You have to understand the mindset. They are saved, they are absolved, they are the holy warriors for the 2nd coming and any deal they make with the Devil to get to last the Last Judgment quicker is pre-sanctified. After all, that's half the attraction of the theology in the first place. The US conservative version of "Liberation" theology! It's just Aleister Crowley's "do what thou wilt", but make sure to say "Praise Jesus" and add an "Amen" at the end.

He was on the covid list. Probably recuperating instead of working out and needs to get back in game shape. Much ado about nothing.

Not useful.

I love the post that one of the commentators of the article put, to paraphrase "The first question the NBA should use in their concussion protocol is 'Do you want to play for the Kings'"

Sounds like he wants to be brought in to the hearings... Come on down Donnie!

Meadows has started to turn it around at Erie after struggling initially. Hitting .300/.342/.557 in the last 19 games.